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Word: lewises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the Attorney General's recuperative schedule for five days, varied only when he ate his vegetable dinner at the Dunes instead of the Green. Several eager Narragansetters invited the rufous gentleman, whose eyebrows rival John Lewis' and Jack Garner's for density and concentration, to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Lay Bishop | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

One morning last week Trinity's churchyard at the head of Wall Street slept humidly under a blazing sun, while some 250 men-public utilitarians, newsmen, drawling politicians from Tennessee-met on the sixth floor of Manhattan's First National Bank. They were there to witness an epochal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Appomattox Court House | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Only conspicuous Old Dealer on the scene was John O'Connor, the purged Congressman from New York. Uninvited, he prowled around town looking for infractions of the Hatch Act, growling against the convention's Rooseveltian hoopla. To one reporter he said: "It has been prearranged in Washington by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: War on Straddlebugs | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

≫On hand to watch proceedings was Treasurer Oliver A. Quayle Jr. of the Democratic National Committee. He took occasion to state that his party had received only a $50,000 loan (since repaid) from John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers for the 1936 campaign. Mr. Quayle next day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: War on Straddlebugs | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

To the Panda Poker Club of Louisville, Ky., Mrs. Ettie Garner last week wrote that her husband Cactus Jack "left off the practice [of playing poker] a good many years ago." With the poker & whiskey vote lined up for him by John L. Lewis' attack last fortnight Mr. Garner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Poker | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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